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Oculus Rift will bring VR films to 2015 Sundance Film Festival

To show, once again, that Oculus Rift is capable of more than gaming, Oculus will be bringing about a dozen VR films to next year's Sundance Film Festival.
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Though the minds behind Oculus Rift VR have video games in mind for their virtual reality headset, the non-gaming applications are undeniable. With that said, Oculus VR will return to the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and will have a larger display filled with virtual reality films that will further blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Wired notes that a full lineup of virtual reality films will be available for viewing at an installation called New Frontier. The films on display will include:

  • 1979 Revolution Game (Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari)
  • Assent (Oscar Raby)
  • Birdly (Max Rheiner)
  • Dérive (François Quévillon)
  • Evolution of Verse (Chris Milk)
  • Kaiju Fury! (Ian Hunter)
  • Paradise (Pleix)
  • Perspective; Chapter 1: The Party (Rose Troche, Morris May)
  • Possibilia (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
  • Project Syria (Nonny de la Peña)
  • The VR Works of Felix & Paul (Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël)
  • Way to Go (Vincent Morisset)
  • Zero Point (Danfung Dennis)

Oculus previously hit Sundance in 2012 for Nonny de la Peña's virtual reality film, Hunger in Los Angeles. If that name sounds familiar, it's because her last project, Use of Force, was a big hit at IndieCade back in October. Sundance in 2014 later hosted an EVE: Valkyrie exhibition on Oculus, as well as a virtual "Sound and Vision" Beck concert.

The New Frontier display will run at the Sundance Film Festival from January 22 through February 1.

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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